MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ Central Methodist Hall

Monday 6th February, 2012

7:30pm

Event information

Hey! Manchester and Ceremony Concerts are more than a little bit excited to be welcoming back two of our favourite artists for a very special collaboration.

Tickets are available from Common (no booking fee), Piccadilly Records, Vinyl Exchange, Seetickets.com, WeGotTickets.com, Ticketline.co.uk and on 0871 220 0260.

Featuring lyrics and vocals from King Creosote sung over musical backdrops arranged and recorded by Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine is a genuine labour of love, recorded over a number of years without the pressure of deadlines, whenever Jon and KC could get together. Released in March, the album, featuring instrumental moments as affecting as the lyrical, consists of newly interpreted obscure delights picked out from twenty years of King Creosote’s treasure chest of a back catalogue. Intended to be heard as a single experience, Diamond Mine produces a near classical suite of emotion ranging from cracked despair to patched-up euphoria. Described by King Creosote as a ‘soundtrack to a romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal village’, the record weaves in slices of Fife life, bike wheels, spring tides, tea cups and café chatter to produce a beautiful, unique and timeless album.

King Creosote – aka Kenny Anderson - is the founder of Fife’s Fence Collective, who also count his brothers Lone Pigeon and Pip Dylan among their number, as well as British folk mainstays James Yorkston and the Pictish Trail. Jon Hopkins, signed to Domino’s sister label Double Six (Steve Mason, She & Him), is a pianist and electronic music from London. He has worked with David Holmes, Tunng and Four Tet, and co-wrote and performed Brian Eno‘s Small Craft on a Milk Sea, released on Warp Records in late 2010.

Diamond Mine was recently shortlisted for this year’s Mercury Prize.

This special event takes place in the unique setting of St Ann’s in St Ann’s Square. Consecrated in 1712, the church is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Manchester and is an excellent example of 18th-century English baroque architecture. It was only the second church to be built in the then town after the original 15th-century parish church (now the Cathedral). It has hosted The Duke & The King’s Simone Felice and Red House Painters’ Mark Kozelek in 2011.

http://www.myspace.com/kingcreosote
http://www.myspace.com/jonhopkins
http://www.stannsmanchester.com/
http://www.heymanchester.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ceremonyconcerts

4 Central Buildings
Oldham Street
Manchester
M1 1JQ

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